Milan Ćalasan

Milan Ćalasan (born 29 October 1954) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a forward.[2] He works as a sports agent.

Milan Ćalasan
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-10-29) 29 October 1954
Place of birth Maribor, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1974 Maribor
1974–1975 Budućnost Titograd
1975–1977 Red Star Belgrade 3 (0)
1977–1979 Olimpija Ljubljana 60 (16)
1979–1982 Dinamo Zagreb 27 (5)
1982–1983 Liège 16 (5)
1983–1984 Rot-Weiss Essen 11 (1)
1984–1985 Béziers 33 (20)
1985–1987 Orléans 64 (38)
1987–1988 Guingamp 30 (17)
1988–1989 Guegnon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Ćalasan played for Red Star Belgrade, Olimpija Ljubljana and Dinamo Zagreb in the 1970s and 1980s before moving abroad and spending several seasons with Liège in Belgium and Rot-Weiss Essen in Germany.[3]

After retiring from football, Ćalasan became a sports agent.

From 1990 to 2001 he was the sports director of two Japanese football clubs, Nagoya Grampus Eight and Gamba Osaka. He was the first agent who brought European players and coaches such as Arsène Wenger and Frederic Antonetti in Japan.

Other activities

In May 2010, Ćalasan was mentioned in the Serbian media in connection to the controversial 2005 satellite rental contract in which another one of his companies, Camira Creek Corporation based in the Virgin Islands, acted as middleman between the Serbia and Montenegro state union and Israeli company Image Sat International. Ćalasan was reportedly involved in the negotiations between the two parties since the fall of 2004 at which time Serbia and Montenegro was represented by its defense minister Prvoslav Davinić and its president Svetozar Marović.[4]

Davinić eventually signed off on the contract for the rental services of the EROS satellite for €45 million.[5] According to allegations, the deal had not been authorized by the Serbian state authorities and the entire affair came under investigation conducted by the Serbian justice and defence ministries.[5]

References
  1. "Calasan, Milan" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. Milan Ćalasan at redstarbelgrade.info (in Serbian)
  3. "Milan Calasan". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  4. "Nikčević "vidovitiji" od Marovića i Davinića" (in Serbian). Politika. 30 May 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  5. "Fudbalski menadžer u aferi Satelit". Vesti online (in Serbian). 28 May 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
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